Clip.



PATENTBD OCT. 81, 1905.

0,. A. HERMANN.

UNITED STATES ATENT @FFIQE.

CHARLES A. HERMANN, OF MILWVAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.

Application filed September 15,1904. Serial No. 224,501.

waukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented In the drawings, Figure 1is an elevation of a portion of a spiral upholstering-spring inconnection with a bamboo rod or cane secured to the spring by myimproved clip. Fig. 2 is a view of the clip and a fragment of the springas secured to the cane by the clip,

vlooked at from the under side of the structure shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3is an end view of the clip; and Fig. 4 shows the clip as advisably made,out from sheet metal.

. In the drawings, 5 representsa spiral coiledwire steel spring of aformin common use in upholstering-work.

6 is a rod or bamboo cane employed in upholstering as a stiffener orframe to hold -the fabric or cover of a seat or bed in proper position.

My improved clip 7 is advisably made of sheet metal by being cuttherefrom in the form shown in Fig. 4, in which one end of the clip ismade furcate with separated leg members 8 8 and with a tang member 9extending in the opposite direction of the leg members and in a linewith the space between the leg members 8 8. The tang 9 is of such widthonly as when brought around to the leg members 8 to readily enter therecess 10, formed in the material between the leg members 8.

In use the terminal portions of the leg members 8 8 are bent around andmade to fit tightly to the'wire of the coiled spring, as shown in Figs.1, 2, and 3, and the bamboo cane or rod 6 being placed close to the wireand the clip thereon the clip is then bent and carried tightly aroundand is drawn close to the cane or rod, and the tang is then insertedunder the wire and bent around it and being drawn tightly to the cane isthen clenched tightly and firmly down on the wire between the legmembers 8 8. By this means the cane or rod is secured firmly and rigidlyto and in place on the spring, so that it cannot get away from thespring, nor can it move longitudinally with reference thereto, nor isany tilting or movement of the cane or rod on the spring permitted. Theclip, as before stated, is advisably made from sheet metal which shouldhave little or no elasticity, but which is flexible and strong, beingthereby adapted to be bent around the cane and the wire and to beclamped thereto, firmly holding the cane or rod rigidly to the wire, andas it is desirable that the clip be made thin, so as not to project fromthe surface of the cane or wire spring as a thick band or even as a'wireclip would do, which would cause wear on the covering materiahsheetmetal is always preferred for the clip.

As applied to the cane and wire or two articles to be secured to eachother rigidly, the medial portion of the clip. is bent and fits aroundone article, and the plane of the path of the tang intersects or crossesthe plane of the path of the leg members between the clamped articles,and the tang is clamped around the other article in a direction oppositeto that in which the leg members are clamped about the same article, andas the bamboo canes employed for the marginal stiffeners vary in size,and even the same cane at different points is larger than at otherpoints, it is necessary frequently to cut off the end of the tang whenthe tang is being bent about and clenched to the wire of the springafter passing around the cane, so that the desirability of a tang andclip of sheet metel is important. A double-wire tang could not be soshortened.

What I claim as my invention is- In combination, a coiled-wire spring, arod or cane adjacent and substantially parallel to a part of the spring,a clip of sheet metal consisting of an elongated flat tang and at oneend and continuous of said tang two separate flat leg members extendingaway from the tang the separating-space between these two leg membersbeing in line with and substansaid rod or cane is clamped solely by saidtang tially as wide as the tang, the leg members and to but not againstsaid spring. I clamping about the Wire of the spring and the Intestimony whereof I aflix my signature in tang extending entirely aroundthe rod or cane presence of two witnesses.

5 and crossing the leg members in said space and CHARLES A. HERMAN N.

between the rod or cane and said spring and Witnesses: clamping aboutsaid wire between and in juX- C. T. BENEDICT,

taposition to said two leg members whereby ANNA F. SOHMIDTBAUER.

